MANGLED AND BURNED TERRIBLE DISASTER TO TWO WORLD'S FAIR TRAINS. Many Passengers Killed and Injured ina Collision on the Grand Trunk at Battle Creek, Mich.—A Fright. ful Holocaust Caused by Disobe- dience of Orders, A terrible aceldent occurred about 4 o'clonk a.m, in the yard Trunk Railroad close by the roundhouse in Battle Creek, Mich.. by nt twenty-six persons lost # of the Chicago and Grand whiel: least their lives, and twice as many more wera badly injured. A Raymond and Whitoomb of passengers from New was returning from Ohi made up of six Pall special train York and Boston The train, nan cars, with a comple- ment of baggage oars, left the Sixtieth street station of the Grand Trunk Railroad in Chi cago at Boclock p. m. It ran as the first section of regular train No. 6. Conductor Scott received this message “Carry red signals for second No. 6 from Battle Creek to Durand. No. 9 on double track.” This doubla track is a sort of siding mid- way botween Battle Creek and Nichols, a small station mile to the Train No. 8 is known as the Pacific express. The big engine was hauling ten coaches, a bag- gage oar and a mail ear, aches were filled with Canadians and New Yorkers who were on their way to the Fair At Lansing Conductor Burke, of No. 9, received thi essa ge “Run to double track for No.6." Engineer Woolly of No. 6 did not run upo ionble track, as he was ordered to do, ‘onduetor Scott did mot see that the {o- ictions were followed, On trary, bo bad been told by Fireman Turner wiflo Express had passed out of gave the signal to move upon tha main track, The heavy train of Pullmans moved off the ing and started lively speed East It had gone a quarter of a mile when En gineer W saw headlight the a"yifio expre wing down upon him. He made a frantic but unsuccessful effort to check his train. Ther» was a terrible crash and when th wnspeople searched the wreck they fot twenty-five bodies, ¥ v CACO ago, seetion of Meot one east, The eo the co the le rin } a8 he 1 lead. Identified hing + 3pvarent- 1 watch of Til- nd possibility o aed tobe GG, W in pockets $30 m ’ $20 | Max be nt from to Charles in German fr Howard E. Vance. thirty-five years trousers several Jackkaife, with wateh, gold the Initiale in H %: trousers nt-flap to Dr apparently about heavy build English g- born handle spectacles ket of versizns in west: silver bhandkerchi : ¥ in LOE: we. O br tent risp : no od bee Wo- fon Woman urned a lothing remaining Wor be id all saibility ieation om right arm pocket of skint F. Konze, a: arker uvelope post together with 825 Ket was a ha F. R taken Was pair wn, oRrs Of ons face and well as feet, t remaining on back wandkerehief with Baby, burns trunk Hmi exam inati road irnea wket of coat shatelaino wat oguition ; charred o " tical SOX ) tk when the two trains 181 onet of the signal tower at it was just breaking, and a iashed ainst the windows yom where the telegraphers sat x : " n re ye abe gether | 1 lofty r at their keys here was no time to Apply alr brakes or The engineers and firemen ed for their lives, and a giant locomotives came that sould he heard a naif mile aways With fearful foree the en- Zine of the special plowad pearly hal! way into that of the express, driving it backward into the baggage car, and the latter in tur into the day coa~hes behind I'he shock was 80 terrific tht the first four of these were completely telescoped, the first conch cutting through the second and see ond into third in an instant, the roof of each passing over the ‘heads of the sleeping pas. sengers and sweeping them in a mass to the north end of the car immediately the wreek took fire from the stoves or lamps. Through the dust and es caping steam a sheet of Oasme leaped from the wreckage Lhe travelers on the special, nearly all of woom had been shaken out of their berths by the shook, poured out of the cars, Lut be. fore the fury of the flames they were almost poweriess 20 render any assistance axocept to the injured in the fourth ear The Fire Department was prompt in re. fponding, but the nearest hydrant was nearly 2000 feet away, and, when a line of hose was | inid, the pressure was nots sufficient to be of much service, The firemen meanwhile at- tiekod the blazing wreek with axes hatchets, ond lengths of ratls found in the yards, but by the tite a supply of water was available the telescoped conchen had been reduced to fragments of charred timber, iittle more thay tha trucks remaining, Iu response to the sinrm from the fire sta. tion pretty nearly the entire town had turned out, and the residents, assisted by their wives, devoted themselves 10 the relief of thoss injured (n the four cars, Those were pineed tu buggies and carts and taken to the Nichols Home, where a corps of physh clang acd nurses worn in waiting to minister to thar sufferings, For want of a suffeiont tinther of stretohors hoards wore nafled to. pethier, and a freight car standing on a side track was sonverted foto a temporary worgue, Wolle the flames wore raging fercest the Leipioss resousrs saw a besutiful woman hanging out of one of the windows of the seoond coast, They made a desperate offort 10 drag her from the wreok, but she was so firmly held by the twisted rods that she could not be relexyed, Consclous of her im- reverse levers, of both trains J second later the together with a crash ! | name and those of her friends, and begged that she be left to die. Within five minutes nothing remained st the sill but a blackened bead. She was C. OC, Yan Deusen of Sprout Brook, N. Y. Before the fire reached her she clasped her hands and prayed, The Spectanie drove the rescuers into a frenzy. They battered at the side of the car and wrenched the hands that were clasped In suppleation, but the heat was so great that the men were driven back, The manner in which the rest of the vie- tims met thelr death was quite as awful, Twenty-three men and women and one hoy wars buried in the beap, but so completely wers they covered by wreckage that not one of them could be seen through the roaring flames, Those who were not killed instont- i 1y in the crash were held by the wreckage in ! such a way that escape was impossible, | special train remained After the wreck Engineer Woolly of the unon tha snot and viawod the horror that had been esused by his nogieot of orders. After the last of tho | Injurad had been taken away he went to his | by Prosecuting | slaughter, | respect to disappearing peding fate, the poor woman gave her homes, That afternoon warrants wore sworn out Attorney Clark, charging Woolly and Conductor Scott with mat FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Senate. Day. —8evernl important to the rules were offered of Nevada, spoke all amend. Mr, day against re 50 rents Jones, peal, Stn Dav.—The morning hour was de voted to a of proposed amend ments to the rules, after which the silver de bate was resumed Brn Day. ~The whole day was d od ame ussion of discussion ndment te Das of the Fan again att MH Day was Mr. Morgan i it wi it 5%tn Day Eul ntative Mutol liversd 60re Day, —The H esolution looking to nent SOHOFIELD'S REPORT. The Army Sald by the General Com- manding to Be in Excellent Shape. The annual report igh» 3 ieeests that a res % and organi untoers as may be service in the event of war Satisfactory progress is reg fabrication of modern high-g and ronsiderable work has best done in provid. lng dispincements for such guns and mortars, Experiments have also been continned in arriages for such gans An increase in military education through- | out the o educated aniversitd Ceneral § hjects of the policy condemplated hy Government ia the enlistment of [ndians 3 soldiers has boat accom plished General Behofleld advises that the regula orm of enlistment be reduced from five to three years and thet the legsal restriction spon reenlistment be removed so that the lepartment may be at liberty to continue those whose services are found to be valu. able, ss ——— - HE TIED FARRAGUT. A Celebrated Seaman Commits Sul. clde at the Mare Island Yard, John Neil, & seaman in the United States Navy, serving on board the reosivibg ship Independence, Mare Island (Cal) Navy Yard, committed saleide by shooting himself in the head. The deceased was reprimanded for having overstayed Wis leave of alwence and Was pusithan by restriction to the ship for a period of sixty days, Asx woon as Neil received his punishment he was soon 16 go below into the ship bag room, where he was found later with a bul. lot wound In his right tem Ie. The deceased Was a man of unusaal distinetion, having re- eetved medal honors from Congres for bravery and meritorious sondu . Nell enlisted In the Davy wm 1861, served with Farragut a¢ Mobile Bay, and lashed the Admiral In the riguing of the Hartford, while hb stood by hie side throughout the fight Rinea the war Nod! nas enpved cortinuously in the navy, and was one of the survivors of the Hi-fated Trenton, which went down in Apu harbor, and received general mention OF bravery in rescuing shipmates from the Vandalia, which was also wreokad In the Ho was a native of Lroland, aged “two Atda maths ob the Grand Arm} om “and the vegular Arm Union, ’ ——re— Afghanistan has sold 10,000 Jo ial sons the cost Haears rebellion. of t Navy meer of LIVE THINGS ON Stamm SHOW. FINE STOCK EXHIBITED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR, Sheep ans Heavy as Some Swine, and Swine ns Heavy as Some Horses - Shetland Ponles Dalry Ma« chinery and Methods -Food Dis- play From Land and Sea, The agricultural exhibit of Fair, including the stock pavilions, the great display amphitheater and the main bull ling, the World's covers a total of sixty-nine acres, over twice the entire acreage of the huge Manufactures | Bullding. It is at this pole of the Fair, says the Ban Francisco Chronicle, that the farm. ing interest is magnetized, while the artistio #pirit is attracted to the opposite pole, over a mile to the west, For the most part the ex- hibits in the main hall ring the changes on pyramids of glass jars containing samnles of Krain, vegetables, fruits and other products | of the soll In a profusion which can only re- tain its interest to the selentific farmer. The National Department of Agriculture direms the displays made by the different experi mental stations at the universities and ‘cow colleges” thronghout this country, and the result is ono that by itself will repay on day's attention on the part of the selentifically con cerned. One is hiprossed with the fact that tilling the soll is no mental child's play, and | 4 in pests the treatment of soll, and the process ination is a prime requisite of sues &n occupation where competitic severe than in any other. Inde er's work has jolned npletely in the with all the that wore A almost « miiscle that an education ature of % in in is ore , the farm rans ursuits — r . kaha rE ot hibits foors are als ing the samt af thera SoEUdR Abs party sion the stalls In on verted int r sheep A ul on ue sheds whieh con came the #, perhaps the most interesting heavy draught h shows are made pet stock raen of B ™ Still other separate ultry, dogs and NANY “Co ey nigh renown wt respond of hogs in him lombas™ is a Ming and worthy of the dee; and men for the sweetness there is His life has boon three years of oats, barley sleep and general delight, and his frame barely suflless to support the great weight of lard, ham and spare. rib which content has bred upon fit. “¢ claims to weigh 1270 pounds, and probably does weigh over 1000 ; he has great diMonity in rising from a position of rest without stepping on his stomach, which, when he sleeps, lies spread about him in various directions, He never rises exeapt to eat and then never lies down until be has cleared the board. It is esti mated that if he were penned up and de. prived of food he could survive for a period of two months on his surplus tissue and «ill be living on the fat of the land. Like some others of us he has never tasted corn, having been brought to his present proportions on barley and oats, The Poland China breed of hogs is the one most liberally represented <a black and wary siumbue fat species, The largest of these and the | targest hog of any description to be seen in the sheds weighs 1080 pounds, that it requires the moral support and hob- natled boot of his owner and trainer to rouse him to the trough, Between times he lies out and sleeps with a snore that is like a steam Jamp full of twigs, Altogether he looks liken big bologna sausage, with his tall representing the bit of string on the end, Some of the young plas seem to grow faster than their skinn expand to hold them, so that the aot of closing the mouth saoses thelr tails to wiggle with a regular and corespon- sive movament, For those who ike thelr pork more lean there are the Tamworth hogs, which look like big, brown, overled mts, There fa noth- Ing in the phystognomy of any of these Jo brutes to suggest aught like a spirit of any sort, but the “improved” Yorkshirs breed have faces that are tall of expression and Hnger fn the memory, The nature of the im- provement in the “improved” Yorkshire does not communists itself readily 10 the observer, unless It be in the whiteness of the skin and bristles and inthe high, noble fore. head whioh starts at an abrupt with the snot, and curves after a while the The sheep stand about in various woedita- Ho fs so fat | tive and mastiontory atiitndes withont mus) regard to anything in particular, Many o thom wear canvas overconts to protect thet wool from getting solled, and the rams an flitted with leather aprons over thelr eves 4 discourage their propensity to open holes f3 each other, All-wh te Southdowns and thy Hampshire downs, with thelr dark muzzle and black woolen stockings are present fi numbegs, Then thers are the Marinos, whos { superfluous skin Hes bunched in muitifolds | lke the convolutions of the buman brain | Cotswolds with basks as wide fs I and beautiful all-w fine independent Bp dogs, and Angora goats from Califor nia, with thelr long, curly, silky wool, Exhibited by the samo Southern Cali fornian are Persian fat-tail sheep, whose noses | make one wonder how they wanders tho Holy Land, The Dorset horned shoes are also present in large n 1mbers, and ¢ | ti Np lyes ia Mere : ol bangs ; Cheviots, with hairs of pure - badiied RiMEARRAANE EMAAR TR value, The horns of round like a cork the ram grow round ', and the older ms { look out through ti centre of a ser | several twists of stout horn, What is claimed as the largest sheep in the world Isa ‘Lincoln, breed what resembles the Ce id, welghs 457 pounds witho CHIVAS vost, and when } Ia heared sur. | rendersd twenty-two and one-quarter Pp r i WOO, which some it his ) Two breeders of Shetinnd ponies maintain A permanent exhibit in the These firms nfine themselves the raising of toy } ifty Shetlands stook sheds, entirely of all « s beautiful black sts half-way down tas high as a do ver hard pla .y the mnageataiity wma bo riers, they irawit ar ail nades whic pavilions ant and the regate ir intler * ory ing the a are disposed in two circles other, and the heavy g interior of each tank fro Most of the tanks cont a. twoor three « ah names are played on placards hung a the ace the One lady was asked by her he panion which of two fish swimming about in the & sunfish and A dunner HANIY answered ; “accor : the right Is a oft i a suns The can with eyes ; the paddie-f , With a nos= like a rals bet and the long-nosed gar, who worse an old-fashioned darning-neadle for an upper Hp, are all stared at in open wonder by nine tenths of the visitors, to whom the existence of such monsters is for the first time made known, The clusters of sea anemone, which remind 8 Drstwlass chrysanthemum show under water, and the spider crabs which crawl about them with their hands bigger than their fost, are only a few of the creatures which absorb the gaze of the multitude, Dut on the other hand the fish themsslives proba. biy think that we on the dry side « are the olserved and that they on the we side are the oleervers, What the fish see ie a thousand times more fall of variety and fp. terest than the fish themes] ves ent varieties of fish, whose ng ® ines same tans w Oh we ue t fish the upl voor one of TLERTY OF MEDALS A Chicago paper observes that the World's | Fair medals are now being dealt out by the tonrt load, It says: “I'he sxhibitor who | quits the Falr with less than a dozen or so of Jonn Boyd Thacher's brass tokens will not | be fn it with the generality cf people who are ! showing goods at the Fair, Yesterday the | jurors announced awards fn parts of three | departments — horticulture, transportation | and agriculture, In the hortfoaltare depart. | ment thers are nearly 600 moGals given for { frults and berries salons, lowa exbibitos get just forty-seven medals fo: goossberrio and lows Is hot wo much of a goossherry Btate either, Other States have nearly as big a list, and when it comes 10 strawbers ties, cherries, currants, blsckberrios and small froits It bs just as bad. Medals are soattered with a prodigal bani, In the transportation department the partial lis of winners announced is incinded in group eighty, which runs all the way from road tiokots 10 a model of the new Memphis bridge, There are many Chisago winners in this lot, all the local manuiastarare of oars, our , gates, switohes, frogs, oar and the Hike bemg remembered. In the agricultural noutend for fea tables | white, Mke | Mohal { i out of | « He is five yours | ands | f the gine | DROWNED INLAKE BAIR P——————— WRECK OF THE PROPELLER DEAN RICHION), Bhe Ran on a Reef in Lake Erie, Near Dunkirk, in the Stam, and Vane to Pieces Her Bodies of Her Ashore Thy line propeller time during and ne Wash Girgo Crew Delawnr La Dean It Y., and Eric prising a crew with flour and for Buffaln, Stuttgart uresn fo register withot expanse to Cymy the sch striking miners The Bel Fux Belgian and Germaz are not as well « 'rench ans receive or about sixty while the { the French district Bassin-du-Nord hours’ sides benefits in reduced rent, free fuel and medics] attendance equal to in twenty coals Wore nls a Bye abhor Have een or A LINCOLN MEMORIAL. The House tn Which He Died Dedleas ted as a Pablie Musenm. Ceremonies of 4 most interesting chars neter, 10 which Viee-President Stevenson, Nanstors Callom and Palmer and others of the Illinois delegation Congross, and other prominent public men leat their active participation, were held to mark the formal opening of the newly established Lin. colin Memorial Houses jn Washington Through the patriotic afforts of a number of prominent citisens forming the Linsoln Me. morial Association of the Distriet, the unpre. tentious threestory brick houses on Tenth street, Into which Lincoln was carried after tho fatal shot was fired In the old Ford Theatrs opposite, and wheres he died on that April morning, twenty-eight jon ao, has been secured on dense and has oon made a museum of Lincoln relies and memorials, The collection, which ix not ye complete, embraces all the interesting relies which ( n Q. H.Olroyd has boen collecting since 1860, and which up to last spring wors retained in the houss at Springfield, TL, , whore Lincoln resided when ho was elected Prose dent. This property came into the pos. session of Ro T. Lincoln, who presented it 10 the State of Hiinois, There are between 2000 and 3000 articles formerly fn the Bpring. field + collection of the most interesting character which are now transferred to Washington, and many more are to bo added, in EE — cama old Ralormod ss i sa - THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Fastern and Middle States, Usion Coury, New Jersey, was visited by s band of fAfteen tramps, who killed and ate cows and depopuisted hen roosts until the farmers rose up and smoked the lazy thieves thelr rendezvous In a hut situsted in Troe, NN, 3 out of # woods nesr Us Besivenrs of Kingston, N nn South and West, | £ & Washington. YELAN wi arrived y President Carnet at the Avsinar Mere ommander of went Brazilian feet, again bombarde Janeiro, The damag said been great, Many of the residents mained in the cits bardment are now 1 towns wore given Elysee in thelr 1 Rio de in who re during the prior bom flesing to interior done is have cies ar Ew of aA statute enon Winriam Germany, unveiled of his grandiather in Bremer: Psisoy has 4 responsible the revoluts oMoers insurgents Parsipesy Brazil wiil aged d brands as deserters all who have jolosd the Pex has adopted gold for the the country Guxenal, Baovsant Sonxiissponr has 1 appointed Prussia’s Minister of War to raocesd General von Kaltenborn-Stachau HL a ————— A $50,000,000 DEFICIT. Reported to the Senate That the Gove ernment Expenses Are Too Heavy. not Iw Ann ring Tovey A report from the Finance Committee was presented to the United States Sonate and rend, It contained a communication from the Treasury Department in response to a resolution ealling for the rooeipts and +x penditures of the Government jor the first three months of the current soa! year, The report shows the defleit for those t hires months from the estimated re elpts 10 be over $21,000,000, or at the rate of over $47. 000,000 for the year, {It shows actual expenditures to have heen over $08,000,000, or an average of about #35. 000,000 a month, The expenditures for the year at the same rate would amount to about $854,000,000 or about $21,000,000 more than the estimated expenses, and would show an increase of ex. penditures over supposed actual receipts of a little over #07650, 000, A definite fore mast for the whole year was Impossible, but It wus apparent that shoal the present conditions continue, the defioh at the end of the year would be about $50,« 000,000, The report was orderad pried, . hm —
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